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Supreme Court directive to States on Telgi case

By Our Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI, FEB. 3. The Supreme Court today directed all the States to give within two weeks the full details and particulars of important stamp scam-related cases to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to enable the agency to indicate the number of cases it could take up for investigation.

Accepting the suggestion of the Solicitor-General, Kirit N. Raval, who appeared for the CBI, a Bench, comprising Chief Justice V. N. Khare and Justice S. H. Kapadia, asked the CBI to file an affidavit three weeks thereafter and inform the Court about the stamp paper scam cases which it wanted to take up for investigation in the States.

The Bench agreed with the CBI that it was short of hands as it was investigating a whole lot of cases and that it should not be overburdened by the transfer of all the cases relating to the scam to it.

The Bench was passing orders on a public interest litigation petition from advocate Ajay Agrawal seeking a CBI probe into the Rs. 37,000-crore scam involving several States and Union Territories.

Mr. Agrawal had submitted that this was a case where the national security was at stake. Original dyes and machines had been used for printing of stamp paper and thousands of persons across all the States had been involved.

A number of police officials, including senior personnel, were found to be involved and leaders of different political parties, Ministers, MLAs and others had come under cloud and it posed a great threat to the national security and integrity.

The petitioner said the fake stamp papers were sold in the market through Telgi's distribution agents and the racket had the connivance of officials of the Nasik Security Press. He prayed for a CBI probe into the scam and wanted the Supreme Court to monitor the investigation and transfer of the cases pending in different High Courts to the apex court.

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